Tagged the "bag carrier", the post-holder is supposed to keep the leader of the opposition up to speed on sentiment within the parliamentary party and it was in pursuit of this activity that the e-mails were sent. ❋ Richard (2006)
A skilled post-holder can very easily play off each of the institutions against the others, between which there is already some tension. ❋ Richard (2007)
He said one of the most important functions of the new post-holder would be to organise democratic accountability. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A post-holder had been established in Ké three months previous to our visit. ❋ Unknown (1887)
During the weeks I was prostrate they were quite annoyed, the post-holder said, that we stayed so much indoors, and some of them stood constantly by the window, which was too high, however, for them to see in readily. ❋ Unknown (1887)
Within the last few months the Dutch had asserted their rights in some of these most outlying islands of their possessions, and a post-holder is an official who, by residence amongst the savage inhabitants, upholds the authority of the Government, and meanwhile impresses on the natives the benefits of civilisation. ❋ Unknown (1887)
One of the ship's company, who landed with us when we came, left with the post-holder ❋ Unknown (1887)
H. and the post-holder went into their midst and managed to quiet them. ❋ Unknown (1887)
I sped into the village for help, but met the post-holder with his men running towards me, attracted by the rushing noise of the conflagration. ❋ Unknown (1887)
The post-holder is a dreamy sort of man, but his wife is a wonderful little woman, full of energy and tact. ❋ Unknown (1887)
The men went in company with the post-holder and the four men of his party, so that our strength for defence, should an attack be made, was very slight. ❋ Unknown (1887)
I was miserably anxious while this was being proposed, and was cowardly enough to be glad when the post-holder refused to risk his life in such an attempt, excusing himself on the plea that our neighbours of the next village, who had suffered badly in the last fray, would oppose a peace. ❋ Unknown (1887)
While with the post-holder, we found that when the door was barred the window was filled with eager faces, and we thought by thus raising them to secure greater privacy; but we find that every crevice in the walls of our little room is held by a peering eye as we sit writing by lamplight. ❋ Unknown (1887)
I had nothing with me that would relieve him, and I therefore left him to the hands of the post-holder, who prided himself upon his skill in exorcising devils. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
The post-holder was a good tracker, and a few minutes of sharp walking through a path bordered on either side by dense thorny bush brought us to a chena jungle ground, or cultivated field. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
The post-holder and a whole crowd of awakened coolies now assembled, and they all at once declared that the man had a devil. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
